The story is set in a small, Ukrainian village, and takes place at Christmas time. As ACT ONE begins, we meet a woman called Solokha, a sort of self-styled witch. She's the mother of the young man ...

When someone tells you there's a wonderful opera by Tchaikovsky that for no obvious reason never gets to see daylight, you'll probably think, "Oh yeah? I'll bet there's a reason, all right." Major ...

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The Romanovs were the last Russian royal family to reign, and they were all executed during the 1918 revolution by the Bolsheviks. Tsarina Alexandra was one of Queen Victoria’s grandchildren, and she ...

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Composers' attitudes to their own works are often curious. Tchaikovsky believed The Tsarina's Slippers (Cherevichki in Russian; more correctly "little boots" in English) was his finest opera.

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